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  • Commentary: Employers need to pay attention

    In case you missed it, a national Higher Ground Moral Day of Action took place Monday at 30 state capitols across the country and in Washington, D.C. An organization of national and local progressive faith leaders called Moral Revival planned the events to deliver their "Higher Ground Moral Declaration." They called on politicians at all levels “to move away from extremist politics and policies that benefit the few and move toward policies and laws that are just and fair and guarantee a better life for the majority of the people.”

  • Now Trending: Is it closing time?

    I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about an article I read earlier this summer, a piece by Krystina Gustafson that appeared on cnbc.com entitled, “For retailers, closing stores isn't as easy as it once was.”  

  • ‘Workbars:’ The new gym membership?

    The mobile workforce is changing the face of the workplace, and Staples wants to lead the next phase of this change.  

  • Target thinking small is best for store expansion

    More smaller, “flex-format” stores are in Target’s future.

    Target Corp. CEO Brian Cornell sees the chain eventually opening hundreds of smaller “flex-format” stores, he told reporters Wednesday prior to the company’s fall national meeting at its Minneapolis headquarters, Bloomberg reported.

    Target has opened 23 smaller stores in major cities, with plans to add nine more this year, including one in the Tribeca section of downtown Manhattan.

  • Extreme-value teen retailer enters new market

    Five Below will open its first store in the state of Minnesota, Marketplace Shopping Center in St. Cloud, on Sept. 23. And more are in the works.    The company will also be opening two other Minnesota locations, in Brooklyn Center and Osseo, on Oct. 7.   

  • Parrot heads will flock to this new Mall of America tropical oasis

    Come this winter, shoppers in frigid Minnesota will be able to escape to a tropical paradise without leaving the state.

    Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville restaurant will open a location at Mall of American, Bloomington, Minn., on Sept. 20. The 315-seat restaurant and bar will be Margaritaville’s first in the state of Minnesota.

  • Tiffany names former railway exec as new finance head

    Tiffany & Co. has hired Mark Erceg to become its next executive VP and CFO, effective Oct. 18, 206.   Erceg, 47, who will be responsible for the company’s worldwide financial, indirect procurement and information technology functions, replaces Tiffany’s former CFO who left the retailer in May.   Previously, Erceg was with Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, where he has served as executive VP and CFO since May 2015.  

  • Hotel construction begins at One Daytona

    Construction has started on the first hotel at One Daytona, the $120 million-plus project going up next to the Daytona International Speedway in Florida.   The 105-room Fairfield Inn & Suites being erected by Shaner Hotel Group is a short walk from the track. It will be joined by a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel to be called The Daytona.  
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